Bloomsburg Edges Lady Raider Softball in Battle of Top-25 Teams
Mar. 30, 2007
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - The Bloomsburg
softball team scored six unanswered runs over the final three innings, highlighted
by a walk-off two-run single to left by Jess Rosin in the bottom of the seventh
to give the 18th-ranked Huskies a doubleheader sweep of No. 24 Shippensburg
Friday afternoon at Jan Hutchinson Field.
Bloomsburg (15-5, 2-0 PSAC East) came-from-behind to win game two 6-5 after
scoring three consecutive runs before holding off the Lady Raiders to take
game one, 3-2. In addition to being a meeting of the two of the top teams
in Division II, the games were also the PSAC Eastern Division over for both.
In the second game, Shippensburg (17-12, 0-2 PSAC East) took a 5-0 lead in
the top of the second inning after sending nine batters to the plate.
All five of the Lady Raiders’ runs came with two outs, highlighted
by a three-run double off the right field fence by junior Alyssa
Dubbs (Shippensburg/Shippensburg) that was the first of three-straight run scoring hits.
Dubbs scored on a single through the right side by junior Liz Good
(Croydon/Truman) before Good scored on an RBI-double down the left field line by sophomore
Rachelle Wedell (Baltimore, Md./Northeast).
Meanwhile, sophomore Lauren Plasterer (Shippensburg/Shippensburg) held the
Huskies without a hit through four innings before Rosin led off the fifth
with a double to right center.
Rosin’s double was the first of three consecutive hits that led to
two Bloomsburg runs as Missy Bachert followed with a triple to score Rosin
and Jen Davis hit a pinch-hit single up the middle to scored Bachert.
The Huskies plated two more in the sixth on an RBI-triple down the right
field line by Stacy Krypiewski and another RBI-single by Bachert.
In the seventh, Bloomsburg put runners on first and second following an error
and base hit to right. Amanda Koch and Nikki Shiko then moved up on a ground
ball back to the pitcher for the second out of the inning before Rosin ended
the game with her RBI-single.
Plasterer gave way to sophomore Lori Knopf (Crown Point, Ind./Andrean) in
the sixth after allowing four runs on six hits and striking out four. Knopf
suffered her fourth loss of the season despite not allowing an earned run
and scattering three hits over the final two innings.
Good finished the second game 2-for-4 with an RBI and run scored while Wedell
was 2-for-4 with two doubles and one RBI.
In game one, four of the five combined runs came on three home runs, including
all three for Bloomsburg on two homers.
Shippensburg jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first on an RBI-double
to left center by freshman Nicole Henninger (Reading/Muhlenberg), but Bloomsburg
tied it in the bottom of the first on a solo home run to left center by Shiko.
In the third, the Huskies added two more runs on a home run to right by Alyssa
English, increasing the lead to 3-1.
Henninger picked up her second RBI of the contest in the sixth with a solo
home run to center to pull the Lady Raiders within one. It was Henninger’s
sixth home run of the season, leaving her three shy of tying the school,
single-season record.
With one out and a runner on first in the seventh, Bloomsburg’s Ashley
Lynn got the final two batters to strikeout, ended Shippensburg’s hopes
of a last-inning rally.
Lynn finished the game with 12 strikeouts while scattering five hits in earning
the complete-game victory.
Junior Dani Shields (Laurel, Del./Sussex Tech) allowed just six hits and
struck out four, but the two home runs proved to be the difference as suffered
only her fourth loss in 11 decisions.
Henninger was 2-for-3 with a double, home run and two RBIs to lead Shippensburg
offensively.
The Lady Raiders return to action on Wednesday, hosting a PSAC Eastern Division
doubleheader against Kutztown at Robb Field beginning at 2:00 p.m.
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